The L’Oreal Group hasn’t tested its products on animals worldwide since 2013, instead relying on a predictive model that utilizes a “Reconstructed Human Epidermis” — basically bits of skin grown in a lab — to ensure that its products are safe. Now the French cosmetics giant is teaming up with 3D bioprinting company Organovo to create the real thing…or at least as real as human skin that comes out of an ink jet nozzle can be.
via Engadget
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